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Hypocrisy and Dishonesty Rolled Into One: Richard Dawkins’s ‘Science in the Soul’

August 13, 2018 Tom Gilson Comments 3 comments

I happened across an interesting passage in a book I picked up at Barnes and Noble today. The author was reacting to a certain false view of God: There really is a profound difference between an intelligent designer who is the product of a long period of evolution … and an intelligent designer who just happened, without any evolutionary history. … Hypothetical ‘designers’ jumped up from nothing cannot explain anything, because they cannot explain themselves. He got pretty testy over…

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The Gospel and the Mind, by Bradley G. Green

August 8, 2018 Tom Gilson Comments 1 comment

I just read The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life by Bradley G Green. I’m wondering why it took me so long. Read it: I predict you will wonder the same thing. I’ve read theories of knowledge before. I’ve never come across one that put it in such a theological and ethical light as this one does. It’s not epistemology, it’s ethics: the kind of persons we need to be in order to know anything truly at…

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‘I think Plato probably wrote a story about Socrates’ — Says Atheist ‘Teacher’ of ‘Socratic Method’

July 20, 2018 Tom Gilson Comments 25 comments

Several years ago I locked horns with Professor Peter Boghossian and his acolyte James Lindsay over Boghossian’s Manual for Creating Atheists, part of which involves using dialogue to get people to question where their faith comes from. Boghossian’s “Street Epistemology” method has been gaining steam, mostly led by one Anthony Magnabosco who takes video of these conversations and posts them on YouTube. Magnabosco and Boghossian both call this a “Socratic Dialogue” sort of exchange. Which is why I was stunned — literally…

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FamilyLife Interviews on Homosexuality and Your Children!

July 19, 2018 Tom Gilson Comments 0 Comment

Links to my talks with FamilyLife on teens and homosexuality, based on Critical Conversations: A Christian Parents’ Guide to Discussing Homosexuality With Teens. The second one was the tough one: On the hot seat, answering the kinds of challenging questions I want to help parents with. It’s easier when you’re not doing it on the radio! But the first conversation matters, too, as an introduction to the issues of marriage and morality, and how to talk about it with your kids. Not…

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Help Fund the Poached Egg!

July 19, 2018 Tom Gilson Comments 0 Comment

It’s one of my proudest claims to fame here at Thinking Christian: Greg West, who runs the famous Poached Egg website, tells me I was the first blogger to link to the site. It was early in 2011, when no one knew yet that the Poached Egg would become the top apologetics aggregator site on the Internet. Greg has been scouring the web for apologetics news and insights ever since then. He’s garnered praise from the best in the business. His site, named after…

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FamilyLife Today Listeners, Welcome! I’d Love To Come Share With You and Your Church Please Contact Me for Speaking, Training, and More

July 5, 2018 Tom Gilson Comments 1 comment

Welcome, FamilyLife Today listeners! Thank you for coming here to find out more about my message on air. I’d love to do more to help you do all you can to keep your kids spiritually strong in the face of gay activism’s powerful anti-Christian barrage.

FamilyLife Interview On Critical Conversations Coming Thursday and Friday!

July 2, 2018 Tom Gilson Comments 4 comments

Coming this Thursday and Friday — my on-air conversation with Dennis Rainey and Bob Lepine on keeping our kids in the faith, in a world that keeps telling them it’s “bigoted,” “homophobic,” “against equality,” and more like that. Our conversation is based on my book Critical Conversations: A Christian Parents’ Guide to Discussing Homosexuality With Teens. (The title shouldn’t have said it’s all about teens; the questions and conversations can — and should! — start much younger.) Check local listings here (enter your…

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No, Christian Leaders Are Not Theocracy-Seeking ‘Taliban’

June 23, 2018 Tom Gilson Comments 8 comments

Mehdi Hasan of The Intercept posted an incendiary video accusing Christian leaders (“mullahs” and “caliphs” he calls them) of promoting theocracy and Sharia. The “Christian Taliban,” he calls it. Someone asked me to respond. This one is by audio. My criticism of this video is very strongly worded, but nowhere near as strong as Hasan’s vilification of Christian leaders. Another difference: Mine is honest and proportionate. I mean that quite soberly.

“Unity” That Divides This week's edition of Contentious Questions (Because some questions just are that way)

June 19, 2018 Tom Gilson Comments 0 Comment

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